A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.
We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
